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Gopal Jiu Publications is dedicated to rendering some humble service for the pleasure of the vaishnavas and Sri Sri Guru and Gauranga by serving krishna-katha. You'll find here some excerpts from our publications as well as information about our email mini-magazine.

krishna.com - 2,796 pages of resources on self-realization, God realization, and spiritual life as found in the teachings of Lord Krishna in Bhagavad-gita and other books. This site is presented by the Bhaktivedanta Book Trust, founded by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada.

Indradyumna Swami
- see the world through the eyes of His Holiness Indradyumna Swami a "Traveling
Preacher" in Lord Caitanya's sankirtana movement and one of the initiating spiritual
teachers within ISKCON.

Bhaktivedanta College promotes the spiritual and cultural legacy of Gaudiya Vaishnavism, brought from India to the West by His Divine Grace A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. The College presents a systematic programme of education and training, with special emphasis on personal application. We offer courses on Vaishnava Studies along with other disciplines, in three strands: academic study, vocational skills, and character development. The courses, taught by devotee-scholars, provide students with sound spiritual training combined with academic excellence. The College most naturally facilitates devotees who desire to realise Srila Prabhupadaâs vision of education based on Krishna conscious principles.

The Bhaktivedanta Institute - Through its distinctive research and degree programs, the Bhaktivedanta Institute (B.I.) is in the forefront of the newly emerging scientific field of Consciousness Studies. In 1990, the Institute conducted in San Francisco, the First International Conference on the Study of Consciousness Within Science, in which fourteen major research scientists including three Nobel Laureates presented papers. The Institute has, since then, conducted, the world's only and longest running colloquium on science and consciousness in the Bay Area. The Institute has also pursued its own research initiative within the new field of consciousness studies.

The Mayapur Institute of Higher Education - "Throughout the whole world there is no institution to impart education in the matter of spiritual understanding. So we are going to open a big center in Mayapur where this education will be internationally imparted. Students from all parts of the world will go there to take education in this important subject." (Srila Prabhupada - 1971 letter)

Rupanuga Vedic College is unique in the world in that it offers a pure Vaishnava educational environment with the opportunity to earn Associates, Bachelors, Masters and Doctorates of Divinity degrees. RVC also offers Vaisnava devotional titles such as Bhakti-sastri and Bhakti-Vaibhava.

The Bhaktivedanta Academy based in Sridhama Mayapur, was established in the early 1980âs. The devotees educated there are imbibed with the philosophy, science, and culture of Gaudiya Vaisnavism and are thus trained to teach and demonstrate the essential principles of that culture to others.

Temples

Bhaktivedanta Manor donated in 1973 by George Harrison, is a place dedicated to the spiritual upliftment of human society. Through spiritual life, education and culture, this rural retreat serves as a window to Vrindavan, Lord Krishna's eternal home. Offering the simple precepts of Krishna consciousness taught by His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, it is a God-centred community enabling people from all walks of life to find refuge, a sense of belonging and fellowship, and spiritual meaning and fulfillment.

Sri Radha Govind Dham - (ISKCON Ahmedabad) Three 50-ft diameter stone shikhars (domes) hand-carved with depictions of Krishna's pastimes, rise more than 100 ft. above the 25,000-sq-ft temple. The building, blending Gujarat Sompura, and Rajasthani Khamira architectural styles, sits on four acres and features one of the largest temple rooms in India. The 12,000-sq-ft hall can accommodate 4,000 people and is home to the Deities of Radha-Govinda, Gaura-Nitai, Sita-Rama-Laksman-Hamuman, and Sri Nathji, as well as murti forms of Srila Prabhupada and Srila Bhaktisiddhanta Saraswati. Decorations include ornate stone-clad pillars, marble flooring engraved with colored granite designs, windows intricately carved in Rajastani Mewas style, and Khemira and Araish decorated ceilings.

ISKCON Baltimore - Situated in Catonsville, Maryland, the Hare Krishna Temple has been the center of activities for the members of the Hare Krishna Movement in the Greater Baltimore Metro Area since 1972.

Sri Sri Radha Rasabihariji Temple (ISKCON Mumbai / Juhu) is a spiritual oasis in the desert of demanding material life of the financial and commercial capital of India. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, founder-acharya of International Society of Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) personally struggled against all odds to build the temple amid the palm trees of âHare Krishna Land,â a 4 acre-plot in Juhu Beach. The temple was opened on 14 January, 1978.

ISKCON Radhadesh is a spiritual community of the Hare Krishnas based in a 19th century Chateau in the Belgian Ardennes. There are presently around 80 people who live in the community, which was founded about 1980. Home of the Bhaktivedanta College.

New Dvaraka is named after
Dvaraka, on the north-western coast of the Indian Sub-Continent, the historical
site of Lord Sri Krishna's regal pastimes on Earth, New Dvaraka is situated on one-half
a city block in West Los Angeles, California. It is a unique spiritual community where the pursuit of
ultimate spiritual pleasure reigns supreme.

New Vrindaban is set in the beautiful and peaceful Appalachian Mountains in the rural West Virginia Panhandle. This spiritual community has been a place of pilgrimage for many thousands of visitors each year. Home of Prabhupada's Palace of Gold.

Ratha Jatra, the Festival of Chariots of Lord Jagannatha is celebrated every year at Puri, the temple town in Orissa, on the east coast of India.

Sri Radha Damodar Mandir - Established by Srila Jiva Goswami in 1542 in the holy dham of Vrndavan, the Deities of Sri Sri Radha Damodar were given to Srila Jiva Goswami by his guru, Srila Rupa Goswami Prabhupada and have been worshipped here since then. The bhajan kutir and samadhi of Srila Rupa Goswami as well as the samadhis of Srila Jiva Goswami, Krsnadasa Kaviraja Goswami, Bhugarbha Goswami and the bhajan kutir of Srila A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada are present here also on the temple premises.

Sri Venkateswara Temple (Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanams) is located on the seventh peak, Venkatachala (Venkata Hill) of the Tirupati Hill, and lies on the southern banks of Sri Swami Pushkarini.

Sri Vradavan Dham - Oh, look at Vrindavan, so beautiful with many blissful, splendid groves of kalpa-vrksa trees, with many parrots and other birds intoxicated by singing Vedic hymns glorifying Krishna, with many deer so pleasing to Krishna, with splendid transcendental l akes, ponds, and streams, all filled with water sweet as nectar, and with mountains of valuable jewels.d

Miscellanous

bharatavarsa.net - ISKCON preaching resources, statistics, news and a large collection of photos

Festival of India was conceived to be a resource to the world for the exploration of self-realization. In all respects; therefore, the exhibits, programs, and cuisine urge everyone to explore the complexities of introspection. Over one hundred attractively designed panel displays report and depict little known information on topics such as Reincarnation, Vegetarianism, Ancient and Modern Science, and Vedic Histories. A veritable gallery of illustrative art work, sculpture, and photographic reproductions complete Festival of India's illuminating image to the public eye.

Sanskrit Documents in Devanagari display and transliteration format. In addition to the sanskrit texts, you will find here various tools for learning Sanskrit such as the Online Sanskrit Dictionary, Sanskrit Tutorials, Sanskrit Pronunciation guides, and software for learning Sanskrit and producing documents in Devanagari & Roman formats, and much more.

AntiVir Personal Edition offers the effective protection against computer viruses for the individual and private use on a single PC-workstation.

Utilities

Total Commander is a file manager for Windows, a program like Windows Explorer to copy, move or delete files. However, Total Commander can do much more than Explorer, e.g. pack and unpack files, access ftp servers, compare files by content, etc!

SpyBot - Search and Destroy can detect and remove spyware of different kinds from your computer. Spyware is a relatively new kind of threat that common anti-virus applications do not yet cover. If you see new toolbars in your Internet Explorer that you didn't intentionally install, if your browser crashes, or if you browser start page has changed without your knowing, you most probably have spyware. But even if you don't see anything, you may be infected, because more and more spyware is emerging that is silently tracking your surfing behaviour to create a marketing profile of you that will be sold to advertisement companies. Spybot-S&D is free, so there's no harm in trying to see if something snooped into your computer, too :)

Ad-aware is the award winning, free, multicomponent detection and removal utility that consistently leads the industry in safety, user satisfaction, support and reliability.With its ability to comprehensively scan your memory, registry, hard, removable and optical drives for known datamining, aggressive advertising, and tracking components, Ad-aware will provide the user with the confidence to surf the Internet knowing that their privacy will remain intact.

Nullsoft Winamp is a free, skinnable, multi-format music/media player made by Nullsoft that currently can be used on either the Windows or Mac OS operating systems. It gained popularity in the late 1990s, particularly with the proliferation of the MP3 audio format. Winamp is developed by Justin Frankel, with some of its code based on the AMP decoding engine by Tomislav Uzelac and others. Distributed with the Bhaktivedanta VedaBase®.

Windows Media Player is a media player software computer program used for playing audio and video on Microsoft Windows operating systems. It has been ported to other operating systems as well. It is part of the Windows Media framework. Window Media Player comes bundles with the Windows Operating System, however the newest versions of the player are meant to require the newest versions of the OS.